¹ sn The cave of Machpelah was the place Abraham had purchased as a burial place for his wife Sarah (Gen 23:17-18).

² tn Heb “And Isaac was the son of forty years when he took Rebekah.”

³ sn Some valuable information is provided here. We learn here that Isaac married thirty-five years before Abraham died, that Rebekah was barren for twenty years, and that Abraham would have lived to see Jacob and Esau begin to grow up. The death of Abraham was recorded in the first part of the chapter as a “tidying up” of one generation before beginning the account of the next.

⁴ tn The disjunctive clause is circumstantial, expressing the reason for his question.

⁵ tn The disjunctive clause (introduced by a conjunction with the subject, followed by the predicate) here introduces a new scene in the story.

⁶ tc The LXX adds here “to his father,” which may have been accidentally omitted in the MT.

⁷ tn Following the imperative, the cohortative (with prefixed conjunction) indicates purpose or result.

⁸ tn Heb “Are you this one, Esau, my son, or not?” On the use of the interrogative particle here, see BDB 210 s.v. הֲ.

⁹ tn Heb “said.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he said, ‘I [am] your son, your firstborn.’” The order of the introductory clause and the direct discourse has been rearranged for stylistic reasons.

¹¹ tn Heb “look.”

¹² tn Heb “from the fatness.”

¹³ tn Heb “you must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.”